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RE: I and Thou: The Dynamics of Self in a High Tech World
Really great post, when I see that picture with all the people on their phones I wonder how much the world change if all they did was put down the phone and at least pick up a book. Or even like you said talked to one another.
Now that's something I would pay to see! I thought about doing a short post about you- to give you a little boost. If that's ok. Also tell me a bit more about yourself.
Well I'm 19 I grew up in Croton Michigan, the only friends I had were the woods and my imagination. I went to three different schools Newaygo, Morley, and White Cloud in that order, public school never worked out for me. When I was young I got good grades, but once I got to high school I think I just lost hope that what I was learning would help me in the real world. My senior year I decided I wanted to try a different school again, so I chose White Cloud luckily I lives in the middle of all these so I was able to choose. My goal at white cloud was not to try and get a better education, but to be a leader in sports. I did just that at least in football, I tried 150 percent on every play in practice and in games, I gave 150 percent on drills. The coaches acted as if I was something they have never seen, my effort that is. I guess my drive to compete was stronger then my drive to sit down, shut up, and listen. Anyways once I got to march of my senior year I was pretty much failing every class not because I wasn't smart (not saying I am) but because I did not care anymore, I was dead set that what I do in this school or any school is not going to determine my success in life. I knew that hard work and dedication is what matters, despite my family's opinions on higher education, and how if I don't "get an education" I wont get a good job. This is most definitely true if you are not educated you will not get a good job, but we must not link education to school. So once I dropped out in march of 2016 I started selling cookies door to door, I would go to the store buy the ingredients make the cookies and head out in my vehicle. Going door to door selling cookies is not a bad way to make some money, I made around 50 to 80 dollars a day that's before buying more stock. I forgot to mention I was selling pop and cookies throughout my senior year as well, instead of a locker full of books I had a locker full of pop. After selling cookies for awhile I got a job installing carpet or flooring, in the hopes of starting my own flooring business. The friend I had at that time and through high school though I didn't see it at the time was bringing me down, when I was selling cookies we did it together. Without him I probably could have had my dream right there, as I would have had a stronger drive, with me taking home all the revenue. So after almost 6 months of doing flooring my now fiance who was my girlfriend from 2015 to the then 2016 she convinced me to stop doing flooring as I was not making that much and she did not like the friend I had which at the time I could start to see why Once I quit flooring I quite talking to him. I found a job where my fiances uncle works, he drives a truck for the company which I was going to do. I started dec 5 2016 in the shipping department so I load kitchens and heating on to trucks. When I started I could tell the company was not to "legit" in the sense that it would not be up to governments standards, but I do not care I decide to work there and I enjoy it. Anyways I noticed 1 guy that worked there he is basically junior supervisor is what I would call him and he is also young I think he is 23, well I noticed he worked pretty hard. Me being the competitive guy I am I followed and I busted my ass, after my first 6 months my boss noticed that I did better on numbers then anyone there which means I pulled and loaded more items then the rest. So my boss gave me a raise I went from starting at 11 to 13 dollars in my first 6 months, I guess it was the biggest raise ever given as in the biggest jump at once to any employee there. As I continue to work hard after my year which was dec 2017 I got my yearly raise which put me at 13.65 I didn't start becoming so interested in government honestly I think in till Donald trump was elected I mean I always knew the system was twisted, but I never linked it to government. I always assumed it was the rich that kept all the poor from getting rich, I always blamed capitalism. After becoming interested in politics, and the whole sovereign citizen thing I started researching and it started by trying to link the United States to being a corporation. Then I decided that this type of approach to explain freedom will not work, then I found Ron Paul. This lead me to the full drive to learn everything I can about economics, as I believe you cannot have freedom without looking at economics. I feel economics is the best way to describe things like freedom, socialism, capitalism, government, history, and many other things. My birthday is coming up and I plan on my wish list consisting of 99.9 percent books. I've read Ron Paul Pillars Of Prosperity, and tried the wealth of nations got to page 300 think I may put it away for another time and pick up some new books I might be able to understand better. If you have any other specific questions feel free to ask. Also no I would not mind if you made a post about me. I just appreciate you reading my post and also appreciate your informational post. I hope you continue to post and Keep giving me advice on mine. Thank You
WOW! Thanks... I'm not familiar with Croton. My kids live in Harrison. I went to college in Mt Pleasant. Some good books to read would be The history of the American People by Paul Johnson, The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin and anything by Thomas Sowell. Of and the Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith... (Smith is admittedly a tough read)
If you live in Mich and have a job at all you're blessed!
I also forgot to mention I have a mortgage on a house it was 80,000 took a 30 year mortgage. yeah there is not many good paying jobs out there, my guess is my company doesn't do everything by the books so there able to pay a little more and do other things with there money.
Where is Croton? Also... If you want to understand people, read Machiavelli. The way I study things is simple- Economics is important, but I take a 3-way approach... like a venn diagram. We all live within 3 spheres of existence- economic, political and social; all interrelated and linked together like a venn diagram. Then I factor in human nature and study whatever issue you have from an historical perspective.
When I was a soph at CMU I wrote a paper on NAFTA and used that method. I took it to Washington DC to a conference- on a panel with all PhD's. I was the only one that was right. I predicted that like always, they would sell the land out from under the peasants and they would all move up here!
makes sense thank you I will remember that economic, political, and social. Croton is a small town in Newaygo county I could have said the hardy dam which i live 5 minutes from running time.